d stock exchanges with the public

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Mozambique

Telephones - main lines in use:
83,700 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
428,900 (2003)

Telephone system:
general assessment: fair system but not available generally
(telephone density is only 16 telephones for each 1,000 persons)
domestic: the system consists of open-wire lines and trunk
connection by microwave radio relay and tropospheric scatter
international: country code - 258; satellite earth stations - 5
Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 3 Indian Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 13, FM 17, shortwave 11 (2001)

Radios:
730,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
1 (2001)

Televisions:
67,600 (2000)

Internet country code:
.mz

Internet hosts:
3,249 (2003)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
11 (2002)

Internet users:
50,000 (2002)

Transportation Mozambique

Railways:
total: 3,123 km
narrow gauge: 2,983 km 1.067-m gauge; 140 km 0.762-m gauge (2004)

Highways:
total: 30,400 km
paved: 5,685 km
unpaved: 24,715 km (1999 est.)

Waterways:
460 km (Zambezi River navigable to Tete and along Cahora Bassa
Lake) (2004)

Pipelines:
gas 649 km; refined products 292 km (2004)

Ports and harbors:
Beira, Maputo, Nacala

Merchant marine:
total: 2 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 4,125 GRT/7,024 DWT
by type: cargo 2
foreign-owned: 2 (Belgium 2) (2005)

Airports:
158 (2004 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 22
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
1,524 to 2,437 m: 10
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m: 5 (2004 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 136
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 14
914 to 1,523 m: 34
under 914 m: 87 (2004 est.)

Military Mozambique

Military branches:
Mozambique Armed Defense Forces: Army, Navy, Air and Air Defense
Forces, Logistics Command

Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 3,793,373 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 1,751,223 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$117.3 million (2004)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
2.2% (2004)

Transnational Issues Mozambique

Disputes - international:
none

Illicit drugs:
Southern African transit point for South Asian hashish and heroin,
and South American cocaine probably destined for the European and
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